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Published 19 August 2021 A great snipe. Photo: Åke Lindström. Extreme differences in flight altitude between day and night may have been an undetected pattern amongst migratory birds – until now. The observation was made by researchers at…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astonishing-altitude-changes-marathon-flights-migratory-birds- 2021-08-19

Published 19 August 2021 Claudia Tocco performing an experiment with a dung beetle at a light-polluted site – on a roof in central Johannesburg. Photo: Marcus Byrne. For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction- 2021-08-19

Published 20 August 2021 Ten postdoc positions and at least eight doctoral studentships on the 2030 Agenda and sustainable development will be announced at Lund University on 30 August. The announcement is part of the university’s research…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-positions-research-sustainable-development- 2022-06-20

Published 27 August 2021 The exoplanet in question was formed at the edge of this protoplanetary disk. Illustration: European Southern Observatory (ESO). By capturing a weak signal from outer space, a research team was able to study the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-carbon-isotopes-exoplanets-atmosphere-first-time- 2021-08-27

Published 27 August 2021 Using a supercomputer, the researchers created a high-resolution simulation. Using a supercomputer simulation, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in following the development of a galaxy…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/how-disorderly-young-galaxies-grow-and-mature- 2021-08-27

Published 6 September 2021 Trevor Forsyth. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess- 2021-09-06

Published 8 September 2021 Physics researchers Peter Samuelsson, on the left, and Ville Maisi show the small brass component that contains connectors, microwave circuits and nanowires. Photo: Simon Wozny. In a pioneering nano experiment, a…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/successful-experiment-microwaves-could-result-better-quantum-computers- 2021-10-07

Published 21 September 2021 Poppen the budgie. Photo: Per Henningsson. How do birds avoid collision when flying in dense foliage and other cramped environments with many obstacles? And what does flying in such complex environments entail…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study- 2021-09-21

Published 21 September 2021 One of the two masts at the research station reaches 150 metres straight up in the air from the dense forest. A staff member climbs the mast every other week. Photo: Adam Kristensson. 20 years of measurements…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/long-term-measurements-show-how-climate-changing- 2021-09-21

Published 22 September 2021 The dean of the Faculty of Science Sven Lidin on the overgrown field that will soon start its metamorphosis into the research mecca, Science Village. It is a catalyst that will modernise the Faculty of Science,…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/facultys-journey-towards-science-village-brunnshog- 2021-09-22

Published 24 September 2021 Oscar Agertz, whose research focuses on the formation of stars and galaxies, was delighted to become a new member. Oscar Agertz, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics,…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomy-researcher-elected-young-academy-sweden- 2021-09-24

Published 18 October 2021 The image represents the crater area in which the Perseverance rover collected the images that have now been analysed in the study. Photo: Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU. Using 150 000 images from the Perseverance…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/analysis-36-billion-year-old-lake-intensifies-search-life-mars- 2021-10-18

Published 18 October 2021 The bright side of the moon. The enormous Tycho crater is visible in white at the bottom edge of the image. Photo: PHOTO: NASA/JPL/USGS. Over one hundred million years ago, the impact of an asteroid on the moon…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-doctoral-thesis-questions-dating-known-lunar-crater- 2021-10-18

Published 16 November 2021 Computational science, which is an element in both research and education at several of the faculty’s departments, is another area that Anders Tunlid considers could be profiled and strengthened around the…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/creating-scope-cutting-edge-research-international-impact- 2021-11-16

Published 2 December 2021 The Faculty of Science wants to provide early-career researchers with an opportunity over a six-year period to develop a long-term research activity as well as qualify for promotion to senior lecturer. The faculty…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/faculty-announces-four-advantageous-associate-senior-lectureships- 2021-12-02

Published 1 December 2021 Image: OHB. Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-carbon-dioxide-emissions- 2021-12-01

Published 13 December 2021 The pandemic brought many abrupt changes for the faculty’s deputy dean Karin Hall. But she is used to change, having grown up in both Svalöv and Los Angeles. After working in a kind of state of emergency for 18…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/preparing-changing-landscape-first-and-second-cycle-education- 2021-12-13

Published 21 December 2021 Niels Koning and Daniel Strand. Photo: Johan Joelsson. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development- 2021-12-21

Published 11 January 2022 Kerstin Johannesson, professor of marine ecology at the University of Gothenburg and Georg Kresse, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, have been appointed new honorary doctors at the Faculty of…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/biologist-involved-popular-education-and-prolifically-cited-physicist-have-been-appointed-new- 2022-04-05

Published 11 February 2022 Brittle stars clinging to mussels. The size of the brittle stars corresponds to that of the Silurian echinoderms examined in the study. Photo: Lea D. Numberger-Thuy. A research team has succeeded in analysing two…

https://www.science.lu.se/article/brittle-star-fossils-gotland-provide-unique-insights-evolutionary-change- 2022-02-11